What is the funniest, laugh-out-loud book youโve read so far?
What is the funniest, laugh-out-loud book youโve read so far?
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The Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cove. Can’t remember who wrote it. It was a gag gift from a college buddy…I made the mistake of saying “I’ll read anything…”
Christopher Moore is the author
Christopher Moore
I have that one but haven’t read it yet!
His book, Lamb, is hilarious!
Anything he writes is hilarious!
A Dirty Job will make you laugh, too! “Kitty!!”
I just finished it last night. I stumbled across his books at the library and itโs the 3rd one Iโve read. Heโs hilarious!
@Amy , I think Lamb should have made the list.
@Kathleen Agreed! I recommend it all the time.
Bossypants by Tina Fey.
Also, Yes Please by Amy Poehler
I really enjoyed Bossypants, but I didn’t think it was that funny. Definitely a book I recommend. Guess humor is in the eye of the laugher. ๐
Walk In the Woods by Bill Bryson.
Anything by Bill Bryson is dangerous in public places ๐คฃ
Agree. I almost had to stop reading Notes from a Small Island while on an international flight because everyone was asleep and I was laughing so hard, trying to be quiet.
@Stacy Same happened to me with his “In a Sunburned Country”
Also the Life and Times of the Thunderbolt kid
Anything by Kinky Friedman!
Anything by Nora Ephron!
the cracker factory
Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy O’Toole, runner up goes to Straight Man by Richard Russo
Any of the Sweet Potato Queens books by Jill Conner Browne!
Lamb – The Gospel According to Biff, Christ’s Childhood Pal by Christopher Moore.
Yes!
I hate to admit this, but the Stephanie Plum series by Janet Evanovich
I love Grandma!
.. yes .. the Stephanie Plum books are wonderful .. I was listening to one in my car, on the way home from work, laughing out loud, stopped at a stop-light, hoping someone wasn’t looking, because I couldn’t stop laughing!!
Bucking the Sarge by Christopher Paul Curtis
โThe Good Lord Bird โ by James McBride.
She’s Come Undone by Wally Lamb.
Furiously Happy by Jenny Lawson. It also made me sob. Sheโs amazing.
I loved her first one, “Let’s Pretend this Never Happened.” Hilarious!
Me too! Both books are great!
I agree!
I listened to the audio book. She is so funny!
Dad is Fat – Jim Gaffgan
Food- A Love Story by Jim Gaffigan
Shit my Dad says
My husband would say A Confederacy of Dunces.
I would say something by Bill Bryson or maybe Cannery Row.
There’s a Porcupine in my Outhouse by Michael Tougias
The Hot Flash Club by Nancy Thayer
Catch-22. Also heartbreaking.
A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson.
Me Talk Pretty One Day
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Good Omens
Richard Kadrey Aloha from hell
Me Talk Pretty by David Sedaris.
This may sound kinda nerdy but I laughed a lot at Pickwick Papers by Dickens.
โAre You there Vodka, itโs me Chelseaโ by Chelsea Handler.
Let’s Pretend This Never Happened: A Mostly True Memoir by Jenny Lawson
๐๐ปYes!! I laughed out loud through the whole book. โค๏ธ
PG Wodehouse, Patrick McManus, Bill Bryson- and depending on your taste Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
Ford Prefect: โYou’d better be prepared for the jump into hyperspace. It’s rather unpleasantly like being drunk.โ
Arthur Dent: โWhat’s so unpleasant about being drunk?โ
Ford Prefect: โAsk a glass of water.โ
Bossypants by Tina Fey
Agree
The opening chapter from This is where I leave you by Jonathon Tropper. Also Something Missing by Matthew Dicks. And the chapter on night training sled dogs in Winterdance by Gary Paulsen.
Catch 22. Read the book, the movie is not nearly as good
Any of Louise Rennison’s books. The Georgia Nicholson series had me snort-laughing all the way through high school!
Almost anything by David sedaris, holidays on ice, him as an elf at Macyโs Santaland had me crying
The story โRooster at the Hitching Postโ gets me every time I read it.
I borrowed Sedarisโ boxed set audiobooks a couple of days ago. Iโm driving from NorCal to SoCal and back next week and Iโm hoping I donโt have to pull over from laughing so hard.
SPACE OPERA by catherynne valente
Bossypants
The Grass is Always Greener Over the Septic Tank and anything else by Erma Bombeck.
Gosh! I miss her! She was so funny!
She was such a great writer. I miss her too!
Iโm a stranger here myself. Bill Bryson
One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest
A Walk in the Woods
Flung!
Absolutely!!!
The Lucia books (the whole series but especially Mapp and Lucia) by EF Benson. And A Confederacy of Dunces.
The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid by Bill Bryson. I cry laughing every time I read it.
Blue Heaven by Joe Keenan. Unfortunately, itโs been out of print for a while.
Also, Tales of the City by Armistead Maupin.
Joe Keenan wrote a couple of books that were hilarious!
A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson! Page 19 is worth the price of the book alone! Nearly fell out of bed I was laughing so hard!
David Sedaris BARREL FEVER
I loved A Walk in the Woods
Junior book Hank the Cowdog by John Erickson
Catchb22 was very funny.
A Confederacy of Dunces!
Anything by David Sedarus
Rush Limbaugh is a big fat idiot
@Jennifer ‘s books
Christopher Moore’s Lamb. Hilarious!
Such a hilarious book! I loved it too.
That was the first book that popped into my mind!
Bill Bryson’s Tales of a Thunderbolt Kid
Santaland Diaries by David Sedaris. I have to read it out loud to anyone who will listen and it cracks me up every time! Listening to Mr. Sedaris read it is even funnier!
Yes…love his audio books.
Listening to David Sedaris read Santaland Diaries on NPR every Christmas is a family tradition! Never fails to bring us all to tears laughing! ๐
@Tama thatโs the best. A holiday tradition.
I listen every year when it’s aired on NPR
Nora Ephron I feel bad about my neck
The Night the Bear Ate Goombaw
By: Patrick McManus ๐คฃ
We love reading his books around the camping fire instead of telling scary stories.
Dead Souls by Gogol
A Man Called Ove was really good.
What made you laugh.?
The dialog was just hilarious. Especially Ove’s interactions with his new neighbors.
Parts are hilarious, parts are sweet, parts are sad. Such a great book.
The American version is being filmed with Tom Hanks as Ove… Iโm not sure if heโs a good fit.. weโll see
@Joy I’m not sure either. And I loved the original movie nearly as much as the book.
The Ditches of Edison County
Hitchhikerโs Guide to the Galaxy still makes me laugh out loud.
The World According to Garp
A man called Ove
I laughed out loud while reading the Newbery winner, Dead End in Norvelt.
Early Stephanie plum series by Janet Evonovich
I agree Christine! Hysterical! ๐
Stephanie Plum Series by Janet Evanovich. I was reading it in bed one night and had to leave the room because I couldnโt stop laughing and I was waking up my husband.
Lula and Grandma Mazur are always so funny!!
Bossy pants by Tina Fey
The Last Black Unicorn by Tiffany Haddish. I suggest listening to the audio version. It’s HILARIOUS!!!
Shit my Dad Says
Listened to this on a long road trip. U laughed until I cried. Best ever!
THAT looks AMAZING!!!
I just borrowed the audiobook for a road trip. Too many readers recommended it for me to pass on it.
The Family Fang
Bitter is the New Black: Confessions of a Condescending, Egomaniacal, Self-Centered Smartass, Or, Why You Should Never Carry A Prada Bag to the Unemployment Office by Jen Lancaster.
The Winshaw Legacy or What A Carve Up! by Jonathan Coe. Also, I like anything by Terry Pratchett. Iโm surprised none of his books were on the TGAR list!
Although it’s not on the list, “Less” is hilarious (this year’s Pulitzer for fiction)
This Is Where I Leave You by Jonathan Tropper
Tina Fey’s Bossypants, I laughed so hard I had tears streaming down my face.
Good Omens … and any time Jenks opened his mouth in The Hollows series๐
Jenks is the only thing I miss since giving up on that series.
Following. (I could use a good laugh during my commute.)
Tales of the City by Armstead Maupin
World According to Garp
A Prayer for a Owen Meany.
Don Quixote made me laugh way more than I would have thought a book from that long ago would have. Dickens is also hilarious at times.
David Sedaris is funny, the best one of his that I’ve seen is When You Are Engulfed In Flames. I should also mention Douglas Adams’ Hitchhiker’s Guide series.
Love David Sedaris. His stories are so funny
There were several humorous passages in “Don Quixote” and every one of Douglas Adams’ books that I read, โThe Restaurant at the End of the Universeโ, โLife the Universe and Everythingโ, โSo Long, and Thanks for All the Fishโ, โThe Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxyโ, โDirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agencyโ and โThe Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soulโ, are hilarious!
Sellavision by Augusten Burroughs
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl is very funny. Also Confessions of a Shopaholic.
Let’s Pretend This Never Happened by Jenny Lawson.
Bright Lights, Big Ass: A Self-Indulgent, Surly, Ex-Sorority Girl’s Guide to Why It Often Sucks in the City, or Who Are These Idiots and Why Do They All Live Next Door to Me? by Jen Lancaster
The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared. Hilarious!
I’ve been wanting to read this.
In God We Trust, All The Rest Pay Cash by Jean Sheperd
Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy series
Whereโd You Go Bernadette. Laughed so hard I cried.
Dave Barry’s Homes and Other Black Holes. I was reading mostly in bed at night when I read that. My husband made me leave the bedroom. ๐
Letโs Pretend This Never Happened by Jenny Lawson.
Agree! Laugh out loud funny.
Lamb by Christopher Moore
The One Hundred Year Old Man Who Climbed Out The Window by Jonas Jonasson
Bossy Pants!
Bill Bryson’s “A Walk in the Woods”
Richard Fordโs books about Frank Bascombe are pretty humorous. Similar to Richard Russo in some ways, also very funny
Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris. I would laugh so hard that I wouldn’t be able to breathe. And then the tears in my eyes and I’d cry/ laugh.
Same here!
thought i might get taken off the subway as appearing to be a danger to myself or others. i laughed myself info tears.
The Rosie Project
Phantom Tollboth. I was reading out loud and kept cracking up laughing.
Naked. David sedaris
I liked Bossy Pants, particularly lists ing to it on audio, but L.A.M.B. by Christopher Moore. I also really loved A Dirty Job, as well as his vampire series, and any others of his I’ve read.
I adore Christopher Moore.
He is Amazing!
The Thurber Carnival, especially the story about the night the ghost got in. Hilarious!
The Iron Druid series by Kevin Hearne
Any of the Stephanie Plum series – very funny and always entertaining!
Anything by Caral Hissan!
PS I Love You
OMG this book was hilarious!!
Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris. Absolutely hilarious!
Daisy Fay and the Miracle Man by Fannie Flagg.
Brain Droppings by George Carlin.
Lamb, The Gospel According to Biff by Christopher Moore
One of my favorites! Named our dog Biff…
Yes! Love Biff.
Crazy in Alabama
Me Talk Pretty. DAVID SEDARIS
Hitchhikerโs Guide to the Galaxy.
Any Janet Evanovich OF the Plums series.
A Girl Named Zippy, by Haven Kimmel. And yes, I even laughed so hard I snorted. More than once.
OMG! I forgot aboutthat book. I loved it!
Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing – read it to my class every year – could not read with a straight face!
Her follow up, โShe got up off the couchโ is great too.
@Eleanor Junie B Jones does that for me!
YES! I remember reading Junie B Jones Alohaha to my kids when they were young, and there was a part where I couldnโt get though because I was laughing so hard. I had to hand it over and tell them to read that part themselves. LOL
Don Quixote
Following
Janet Evanovich series. I love all her books.
Same here!!
a walk in the woods and the Chet and Bernie series
A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson.
Roughing It
Do you mean Roughing It by Mark Twain?
@Maude yes. sorry. Should have said that
Shit My Dad Says. It was hysterical ๐
Read some funny parts in The Help.
Gary Paulsenโs Winterdance
The Road to Welllville by T.C. Boyle
Austenland by Shannon Hale
Rainey.
Furiously Happy and Letโs Pretend This Never Happened – both by Jennie Lawson, aka The Blogess
letโs Pretend This Never Happened was ๐
I was laughing so hard in the airport reading it!
Sweet Potato Queens by Jill Conner Browne. Totally hilarious!
Is this a novel?
@Marilyn Yes
@Gailthx
Augustus McCrae is hilarious in Lonesome Dove. He made me laugh out loud unexpectantly all throughout the book. But then I cried great sobs like Iโve never cried before so beware.
I just rewatched the mini-series….he is one of my all time favorite characters.
Anything Wodehouse: Right Ho, Jeeves
Any of the Stephanie Plum series books by Janet Evanovich. Her characters are ALL so funny. Lula and Grandma Mazur are my favorite.
Yes! The books have gotten predictable, but I just love spending time with the characters. =)
The Rosie Project
I was trying to remember this books name thanks! So funny
Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
LOVED this book.
I misremembered the title, but not the laughs!
Maybe I should read it again. Time for some comic relief. Or, would the Confederacy of Dunces be more appropriate?
Anything by Jen Lancaster
Me Talk Pretty someday
Yes!
Some chapters of “Shock Value” by John Waters and the first two Bridget Jones books. Had to be my mind at certain points of my life…
Anything by Erma Bombeck.
Angela’s Ashes believe it or not!
I believe it.
David Sedaris – When You Are Engulfed in Flames
Barrel Fever by David Sedaris.
A Walk in the Woods, Bill Bryson
Wanda Hickeys Night of Golden Memory’s. Gene Shepherd
All Janet Evanovich .my children would look at me like I was crazy
Laughing hysterically while I was reading
The Stephanie Plum series
Great late night reading to go to bed with a smile on your face. Enjoyed all her books.
A Walk in the Woods!
Sophie Kinsella’s Confessions of a Shopaholic, Janet Evanovich’s One for the Money, Bill Bryson’s A Walk in the Woods, and Fannie Flagg’s Can’t Wait To Get To Heaven.
Night of the Avenging Blowfish: A Novel of Covert Operations, Love, and Luncheon Meat by John Welter
I Remember Nothing, by Nora Ephron. Quite of few of hers make me laugh.
I forgot Bonk (or pretty much anything else) by Mary Roach. Amazing stuff.
Just about anything by her is funny, even if the topic isnโt.
Tina Fey Bossypants.
Can you keep a secret by Sophie Kinsella, hilarious!!
Tina Fey’s book, Bossypants
Kiss My Tiara
Dan Jenkins, You Gotta Play Hurt
Traveling Mercies- Anne Lamott
The Supremes at Earlโs All-You-Can-Eat by Edward Kelsey Moore.
Funniest book ever, “The Rosie Project” by Graeme Simsion!
That one is good!
John Grishamโs Skipping Christmas.
Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened by Allie Brosh
Yes!!!
Walking in circles before lying down…I would read this on the bus to school. I’m sure people thought I was a lunatic because I was giggling and laughing out loud. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/117370.Walking_in_Circles_Before_Lying_Down
Bossy Pants
Yeeeees!! I commented to say the same! Tina Fey is HILARIOUS!
@Abbey the best was listening to her read it. We were driving across the country and my husband kept looking at me like I was crazy because I had had phones on.
@Bobbie I’d love to listen to her read it! The first time I read it, I was reading in bed and kept laughing so hard that I kept waking my husband up! My favorite anecdote was her disaster honeymoon story!
100 Year Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared
Why Not Me by Al Franken, Pest Control and The Organ Grinders by Bill Fitzhugh, A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole, anything by Kinky Friedman, and HappinessTM by Will Ferguson are all hilarious!
Oh – also Evelyn Waugh! Scoop, Put Out More Flags, etc.
The Stephanie Plum books…
I laughed a lot when I read “The Rosie Project.” I with that the sequel had the same charm, but it didn’t.
“The Sot-Weed Factor” by John Barth – It’s a hilarious, bawdy, rip-roaring adventure story in the mock style of Tobias Smollett, Henry Fielding, and those other great 18th century picaresque novelists. Read it and you’ll never look at an eggplant the same way again.
Jenny Lawson – Furiously Happy
Me Talk Pretty One Day
David Sedaris
I love, love, love David Sedaris! This should be on season 2 of The Great American Read!
@Megan, I agree!
The World According to Garp.
@Kevin Surprised that someone else knows of this book. It has been many years since I read it, but I do not remember that is was funny.
Terry Fay Malcheski Lamberth I suppose it depends on what you find funny and some of it is dependent on knowing the historical and cultural context. But I remember when I was coming home to San Diego after seeing an opera in Los Angeles. I’d stopped at my usual way station, a Denny’s in Commerce, CA, and started reading that book while waiting for and then eating my much-belated dinner. By the time I got to the scene of the two dons messing with poor Ebenezer by saying that his singing “Flow My Tears” was blasphemous, I was snorting with laughter, and when Henry More and Isaac Newton patched up their quarrel about Platonic idealism with a homosexual tryst, I was doubled up with tears streaming down my face. I’m laughing out loud right now just recalling my emotions. ๐ Even the language of the book got me going from the first. I love Barth’s paragraph-long first sentence. It’s my favorite opening line because it sets up the rest of the book beautifully. Within that one sentence, I was introduced to Ebenezer Cooke, knew him for a poetaster, and I knew that this was going to be a very arch, satirical take on the 18th century novel.
Anything Christopher Moore. I know it is off topic a bit, but once I was reading on the toilet (the only way to read once you have kids) and I was SOBBING. I could barely breathe. My husband practically kicked the door in to get to me (he picked the lock). All I could do was hold up the paperback and whimper, “Her mom died.” He just shook his head, locked the door, pulled it close and told the kids to heat up some spaghettios because Mom wasn’t cooking dinner. God, I wish I could remember what book it was.
I either love his books or hate them. There is no in between for me. That being said, I just finished Noir and loved it!
@Sara just picked it up from hold at the library Friday! Slow start, but I am all in.
Forrest Gump by Winston Groom. surprise! it’s very different from the movie! i laughed out loud thru the whole book ๐
I have not read it, but someone who did told me not to read it because it made her not like Forrest anymore?
well, that may have been her experience, but not mine. he’s not sweet little innocent Tom Hanks in the book- he swears, he lives with Jenny & they have sex (the book isn’t descriptive tho), he’s a normal human being. don’t go into the book thinking you’re gonna get the movie- there are some things that match up, but the book is so much better & funny, but still has touching moments too. anyone i’ve recommended it to loved it ๐
@April , I have been curious for years. Will add it to my list. If for no other reason, something to argue with her about. When you have been best friends for 30 years. Lol
Anything David Sedaris writes!
Laugh and cry with the next sentence. Angela’s Ashes by far!
I love A Long Way from Chicago. Itโs a childrenโs chapter book. The grandma is hilarious.
Have you read the one by Frederick Backman called My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You Sheโs Sorry ?
In death series from J.D. Robb
Not high drama but just pure fun …. the Stephanie Plum series by Janet Evanovich.
Ha! I laugh every time I think of Cluck in a Bucket!
Auntie Mame.
this one is on my TBR list. I LOVE the movie with Rosalind. Russel.
@Geni, I have not read Patrick Dennisโs books for many years, but I remember all of them as hilarious.
@Luann I know my library has Auntie Mame. Not sure if they have his other books. Will have to check and see.
The Colour of Magic by Terry Pratchett, David Sedaris.
The Rosie Project. The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid – Bill Bryson. This was my life growing up. The Ove book, made me laugh and cry. Patrick Dennis’ books.
Also anything by Christopher Buckley. Thank You For Smoking is a real hoot.
Catch-22
Born A Crime by Trevor Noah
The Sweet Potato Queensโ Book of Love. Hysterical.
Catch-22 for sure. I read it on my subway commute, so there was a lot of laughing in public and probably looking deranged.
Millieโs Fling by Jill Mansell – a beach book with a brain!
Anything by Louis Grizzard. Back in the carpool days, my children would not let drive and listen to Louis Grizzard.
I love James Thurberโs stories, but in particular โThe Night the Bed Fellโ and โThe Day the Dam Broke.โ
For those interested, both these stories are in “My Life and Hard Times”, which can be downloaded for free in epub format from Project Gutenberg Canada (those with Kindles can get it converted to mobi format at Online Convert).
@Kevin, most everything Thurber can be found in a collection called โThe Thurber Carnival.โ Iโve bought many used copies over the years; not sure if it is in print. His cartoons are priceless.
@Luann Yes, I also have “The Thurber Carnival”, but, sadly, it’s not available for free download like the PG Canada e-book is.
@Kevin, good to know!
The Stephanie Plum series cracks me up every time
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Yes!!
Any book by Patrick McManus, or They Shoot Canoes Dont They.
almost anything by Nick Hornsby ~
A Confederacy of Dunces!
Agree, just finished audio version. Very funny.
Anything by David Sedaris
Open House by Elizabeth Berg and anything by FannieFlagg
Why Me, a Dortmunder novel by Donald Westlake. Actually any Dortmunder story. He is a thief with bad luck. His criminal projects turn disastrous every time.
The World According to Garp, there is a discussion at the shore about looking out for “the under toad”. I think about that discussion 30 years later and still giggle!
Yes, forgot how much John Irving can make us laugh and cry at the same time…
When he bit that dog!!
And how can we forget โThe Princess Bride?โ
Running with Scissors.
The movie was hilarious too
A Walk In the Woods, by Bill Bryson
I loved his dry humor!
Bitter is the New Black by Jen Lancaster!
Whereโd you go Bernadette? By Maria Semple
Yes!
Lamb by Christopher Moore
The Miss Julia books by Ann Ross. And Janet Evanovich. Canโt read heavy and serious all the time.
Fannie Flagg books and all of the Jeeves and Wooster books by P.G. Wodehouse.
I agree with the part about Wodehouse, except for “Ring for Jeeves”. But, technically speaking, that isn’t a Jeeves and Wooster book because Bertie Wooster doesn’t appear in it. William Rowcester is the sub for Bertie, and I hated him so very much. But everything else is gem-like perfection.
I’ve also branched out into Wodehouse’s other characters. I’ve read all the Mr. Mulliner short stories (which are hilarious), and I’ve read one Drones Club collection, “Eggs, Beans, and Crumpets”, and “Something Fresh”, “Blandings Castle and Elsewhere”, and most recently “Summer Lightning” in the Lord Emsworth/Blandings Castle series. (I’ve also watched the series “Blandings”, “Jeeves and Wooster”, and “Wodehouse Playhouse” and loved them all.)
Thanks! ๐ค
Definitely a huge Wodehouse fan!
@Cynthia women are welcome to join. Well, probably not Aunts.
For some reason funny books don’t appeal to me.
When You Are Engulfed in Flames by David Sedaris. Always listen to his audiobooks and laugh so hard my belly hurts.
can’t wait to get to heaven by fannie flagg
So glad to see this. I’m about to start reading it.
Hissy Fit by Mary Kay Andrews or Confessions Of a Sweet Potato Queen
Sweet Potato Queen is hysterical
@Suzanne the best…I still want to go to the parade
@Mary me too or start one of my own !
@Suzanne. Me too
The Hitchhikers Guide-Series.
Diary of a Wimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney.
Where you go Bernadette?
Yes!
David Sedaris Me Talk Pretty one day
I though the Centerville Ghost was hilarious
CANTERVILLE, STUPID AUTOCORRECT
Listening to Tina Fey’s Bossypants had me rolling while commuting to work
Anything by Jennifer Cruisie
As You Wish by Cary Elwes (I cried outloud too).
A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson
The Rosie Project
The Coincidence of Coconut Cake — Light, funny — and the coconut cake recipe is fantastic. A waiter in a restaurant who doesn’t like coconut cake said it was to die for. lol
THE GUN SELLER, by Hugh Laurie
Jen Lancaster. All of her memoirs are laugh out loud.
I gave some of my books to my sister who laughed so hard on a transatlantic flight that other passengers thought something was wrong. (In one, I remember a very memorable scene in the doctorโs office, her paper dressing gown tears apart and she staples it together! )
Any book by Janet Evonovich The Stephanie Plum series. They are crazy
The Rosie books
I listened to some of the Diary of a Wimpy Kid books while driving to and from work. I laughed so much, I wonder if any other drivers saw me
I read the first Diary of a Wimpy Kid to my children on a camping trip once. We were all in tears – so funny!
The Dreyfus Affair: A Love Story.
Believe it or not The Outsiders as one minute you’re laughing and the next minute you’re crying
Vinegar Girl by Anne Tyler was lol in last half of the book.
Anything by Patrick Dennis, Carl Hiaasen or Tim Dorsey.
Holiday on Ice by David Sedaris.
Yes! Especially the one about Dutch Santa Claus!
Crumpet the Elf.
Janet Evonivichโs Stephenie Plumโs series. OMG so funny ๐คฃ
Yesssssss!!!
So true. Love Lula and Grandma Mazur
I love me some Laurie Notaro.
Sheโs hilarious and underrated.
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. I was manning a booth alone in a mall. I was laughing out loud and crying!
Nev Fountainโs Mervyn Stone mysteries and Rob Shearmanโs short stories.
Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett.
And if you wanna know about books on tape all gosh I listen to quite a number of those 2 Harry Potter primarily and Beverly Cleary among them
Daisy Fay and the Miracle Man by Fannie Flagg
Anything by Dave Barry or Lewis Grizzard.
“Under the Midnight Stars ,” Zane Grey
A Man Called Ove (it made me lol a lot but it also made me cry) and Born A Crime by Trevor Noah (audiobook version)
Lawn Boy by Gary Paulson.
Bridget Jones Diary, Catch-22,
Thank you all for your recommendations!
A Confederacy of Dunces
Anything Iโve ever read by Christopher Paul Curtis has made me laugh out loud.
Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris – shameful laughing out loud in an airport, and Iโd do it again๐
Three Bags Full: a sheep detective story by Leonie Swan (German writer in translation). But it’s Irish sheep — non stop laughing.
Loved this book!
An Uncommon Reader
Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett
This book was SO FUNNY!
Catch 22
Confederacy of Dunces, Tourist Season and most anything from Carl Hiaasen, I’ll Take It by Paul Rudnick.
I forgot to mention Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.
โHeartburnโ Nora Ephron
“A Walk in the Woods” by Bill Bryson
Yes that is a good one.
The Rosie Project. By Graeme Simsion!
I got this free when it first came out and haven’t read it!
You
Yes, The Rosie Project was great!
Laughing Matters, anthology edited by Gene Shalit.
Amy Falls Down by Jincy Willett.
Letโs Pretend This Never Happened by Jenny Lawson. Or Shit My Dad Says by Justin Halpern.
I just got the Jenny Lawson, she’s fantastic!
Daisy Fay and the Miracle Man by Fannie Flagg
fear & loathing in las vegas or naked, by david sedaris
Fatherhood by Bill Cosby
Wishful Drinking by Carrie Fisher. Hilarious!
Anything by Carl Hiaasen!!! Iโm originally from Florida so I know, have met or have seen so many of his crazy characters!!!!! ๐คฃ
Lamb by Christopher Moore.
Funny in Farsi
Bettyville by George Hoffman, When You Are Engulfed In Flames by David Sedaris..and everything else by David Sedaris..he’ll have you laughing in no time!!!
Sister Grimm books or Longmire books!
Where’d You Go Bernadette?
Same here
Sex drugs and Cocoa Puffs.
How To Be A Woman by Caitlin Moran, parts of it about made me fall out of my chair.
โI Must Sayโ by Martin Short
The Professor von Igelfeld series by Alexander McCall Smith. The books are short, and I fell off the couch from laughing so hard.
The Help
The Sunburnef Cpuntry
Hitchhikerโs Guide to the Galaxy.
Fried Green Tomatoes by Fannie Flagg!
*following for suggestions
The great thing about this dialog is all the books Iโve read which come back to life as people post their favorites. Forgot about Fried Green Tomatoes. Brings back memories of a different time and place.
I just remembered how funny Erma Bombeck was. Not a novel but, โIf Life Is a Bowl of Cherries What Am I Doing In the Pitsโ was laugh out loud funny.
Following
Anything by David Sedaris.
Laurie Notaro is another hilarious writer. I loved There’s a (Slight) Chance I Might Be Going to Hell. Another good book from her is The Idiot Girl and the Flaming Tantrum of Death: Reflections on Revenge, Germophobia, and Laser Hair Removal
Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. All of Douglas Adams’ books.
James Thurber’s short stories.
Trevor Noah’s Born A crime.
Whereโd you go bernadette
“Tricky Business” by Dave Berry
I should have said โnovelโ rather than โbook.โ Do you notice that a lot of the ones listed are nonfiction? I wonder why that is.
I am not a fan of non fiction,,,I do find we learn a lot reading novels about different places, wars, et
I like non-fiction as well as fiction, but I want to see more funny fiction in the world. It seems important…and I just enjoy it.
Up the Down Staircase.
I constantly laughed out loud while reading my daughterโs copy of โMagnus Chaseโ. My husband looked at me like I was crazy. ๐
Laugh out loud funny? The Yogi book by Yogi Berra. Read it on the plane and the guy next to me was laughing at me laughing. I finished it and handed the book to him.
Me Talk Pretty by David Sedaris
Not a physical book – audio only, but the How to Be Super series by Sparkle Stories. Heโs a fantastic storyteller, and Iโve laughed until I cried at parts.
Enter Laughing by Carl Reiner , had to stop reading it on the subway because I would burst into laughter.
I have a first edition of that book, and I brought it to a book signing event with Carl Reiner and Mel Brooks in San Francisco in 1998. When I finally got up to meet them, Mr. Reiner was so happy that I had it with me. He commented that I may have been the only person that bought the book (obviously not true), and then wrote an inscription, “Dear Lisa, I love you! Carl Reiner” A book and inscription I will cherish forever.
Awesome
Bill Bryson. A Walk in the Woods
Kotzwinkle’s two E.T books!
The Meaning of Liff
I am reading catch 22 right now…….I have been cracking up on that
Watch the movie.. it was great..made in the โ80 s with Alan Arkin
Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
Following
The Color of Magic by Sir Terry Pratchett
Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse
The Road to Little Dribbling by Bill Bryson
Yes! It falls in my category of The Best Worst Book I have ever read. The Pink Carnation
The Sex Lives of Cannibals: Adrift in the Equatorial Pacific by J. Maarten Troost
I Donโt Know How She Does It, by Allison Pearson, made me laugh.
Bossypants by Tina Fey and I Feel Bad about my Neck by Nora Efron
I laughed out loud reading Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine. Funny and Sad parts. Also Talking As Fast As I Can by Lauren Graham.
Wanda Hickey’s Night of Golden Memories…..Gene Shepherd.
Bridget Jonesโ Diary
A Walk in the Woods
Saw the movie.. it wasnโt very good
@Joy the book is hysterical.
Stench of Honolulu by Jack Handy
A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson
The Help
Theft by Finding by David Sedaris
Has to be ANY Erma Bombeck book!!! ๐คฃ๐๐
And one of her literary idols Jean Kerr. ๐๐
The Undomesticated Goddess (Sophie Kinsella)
Tortilla flat
P.S. I Love You made laugh so hard and then I cried hard too
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul…. I know it’s a children’s book, but my fifth graders convinced me to read the series and although they are all good this one is my favorite!!!
The Accidental Tourist.
Just about any of the Stephanie Plum series by Janet Evanovich.
I laughed out loud in parts of Lonesome Dove and One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, even some in The Book Thief and of course Harry Potter.
Faking It by Jennifer Cruise
Audiobook versions of both Bossypants -Tina Fey and Yes Please- Amy Poehler…they read their own books!
The Lamb by Christopher Moore.
Skipping Christmas by John Grisham
Hilarious!
Mort by Terry Pratchett